Lost World's Fair Technology Analysis

Throughout the 1939 New York World’s Fair technology and the ideas involving technology were going to improve tremendously, and the people who were once doing all the hard work and labor were finally going to get something everyone had been waiting for. The transition from sending letters to your loved one to being able to hear their voices in real time through a phone, or the idea of eliminating traffic jams by creating highways. This new and improved technology and these ideas are what gave these people a great idea of the future ahead of them and the inventions they would come in touch with moving along.

David Galernter’s book, 1939: The Lost World of the Fair, showed how beneficial these pieces of technology were to the process of improving

The technology had replaced these hand drawn sketches that took hours maybe days and did it in half the time and made it look neater. Technology being brought to the workplace to help make the job less time consuming and be of better quality is a huge benefit. The author states, “A computer-drawn picture of a building can be produced in far less time than a typical hand drawing and is probably better to boot. If ever there were a clean victory for technology, this is it.” (Galernter 127). In this quote, the author is saying that if in fact the computer can produce these pictures in less time and is better quality it could be a huge success for technology as a whole. The technology has also made it easier for a writer to produce text at a dramatically easier rate and eliminate the whole purpose of paper itself. The author writes “Consider the production of text. Word processors and computer printers have made the logistics dramatically easier” (Galernter 126). In this quote, the author is saying exactly what was stated prior, that this type of technology has made it easier for writing purposes and to leave paper as a thing of the